Principal Execution & QA Validation Engineer
You will drive validation execution, automation, product quality, and release readiness across silicon and platform technologies. You will define validation strategies, develop test plans and automation frameworks, lead bring-up and readiness activities, analyze results, investigate failures, improve coverage and infrastructure, develop reporting solutions, influence validation practices, and mentor engineers.
Responsibilities
- Define and drive validation strategies for silicon, subsystems, and platforms
- Plan, optimize, verify, and test silicon, FPGA-based platforms, test systems, and validation infrastructure
- Develop and execute validation plans for quality, reliability, and performance objectives
- Create detailed test plans and test cases from high-level requirements
- Design, develop, and maintain automation frameworks for test plans and regression suites
- Lead silicon and platform validation from bring-up through product readiness
- Analyze validation results and system behavior to identify issues and improvements
- Collaborate across engineering disciplines to implement validation requirements and improve coverage
- Integrate validation capabilities and test solutions into existing infrastructure
- Develop automated data collection, analysis, and reporting solutions
- Evaluate design features for functional, compatibility, integration, and reliability risks
- Investigate validation failures and drive root-cause resolution
- Improve validation workflows and engineering processes through automation
- Support power, performance, and system-level validation
- Influence validation roadmaps, infrastructure, and engineering practices
- Ensure assigned validation issues are resolved before customer deployment
- Drive continuous validation-quality and execution-efficiency improvements
- Mentor engineers on validation methods, automation, test execution, and quality practices
Requirements
- Strong experience in silicon, hardware, or system validation
- Deep understanding of validation methodologies, test planning, test execution, and quality processes
- Strong experience developing automation frameworks for validation, regression execution, and test orchestration
- Expert-level Python programming for automation, data analysis, and infrastructure development
- Strong understanding of hardware systems, silicon bring-up, and validation workflows
- Experience translating requirements into validation plans, test cases, and measurable quality outcomes
- Experience analyzing validation results and conducting root-cause investigations
- Strong understanding of validation coverage, quality metrics, release-readiness criteria, and risk assessment
- Experience collaborating across architecture, design, verification, firmware, software, systems, and validation teams
- Excellent analytical, diagnostic, and problem-solving skills
- Exceptional communication and technical-influence skills
- Ability to independently lead complex technical initiatives and drive adoption of validation methodologies and tools